Overall not a bad movie, but not great.
I kind of feel like they could have cut out the scene where the Staff Sergeant was talking to the kid and stuck a "USMC JOIN NOW" thing at the end and used it as an ad for the Marines due to the whole "Marines never quit, Marines never give up, Marines marines marines marines" spiel he went on. The tearjerker moments were pretty false but I didn't go to it expecting much.

Other than that, some pretty slow moments and over-the-top camera shake. I liked it, but some stuff could have been done better.

I was doubtful about how bad this movie could be...then I saw part of it.

It has not only the "guy looking around for alien- then, surprise, the alien is suddenly behind him" scene but also has the "alien has been shot dead so everyone stands around talking- then, surprise, the alien leaps up alive after all" scene.

That's not Syfy original incompetent bad, that's just lazy even for a sci-fi action movie bad. It really is an insult to the audience, the moviemakers are saying "we're gonna serve you generic shit and you'll enjoy it".

Saw this when it came out. Not going to win any oscars by any means, but its a strong sci-fi And action flick. I went in expecting to see angry marines shouting and shooting at aliens and that's what I got. On top of that I got a thin layer of backstory, an ounce of plot, and a sort of alien not explored in any sci-fi films I've ever seen. ( Foot soldiers as opposed to omnipotent super-soldiers. )

Barging in a door unannounced would have a terrible ending if someone was waiting behind it with a shotgun, scared for their life. It'd be important for them to constantly be identifying themselves as they clear a building they know has weaponry around for civilians to grab.

Obvious advertisment for the army. Aliens were Nazis though. But whether or not, it did have a good explanation why they crashed on earth. And not just random aliens fucking everything up for no reason.

I want a movie like V and the tv series Yes I realise, in the Battle LA movie they were after the water . Where human and alien meet and greet until some humans fuck everything up for a alliance, and they go to war. But some human and aliens do join forces to try and find a way to settle peace between them.

But overall, it was a good movie, but nearly fell asleep, maybe because of those damn comfy chairs.

I wished there was more of a role for the armoured units and air combat. And I wished they hadn't focused on 1 squad of people, but rather, the US marines as a whole. Good, but wasn't as good as what I had expected.

I wished there was more of a role for the armoured units and air combat. And I wished they hadn't focused on 1 squad of people, but rather, the US marines as a whole. Good, but wasn't as good as what I had expected.

it would be pretty hard to focus on the military as a whole, there wouldn't be any characters, everyone would be just an expendable grunt, no one wants to watch masses of generic soldiers fighting masses of generic aliens, there's no one to root for,

as for armored and air combat, I would've liked to see more tank action, you don't usually see tanks fighting aliens, but I'm glad there wasn't much air combat, since most alien invasion movies are 2 hours of F-18s shooting at flying saucers.

I'll summarize my impression of the movie in two sentences: It's a great movie for fans of action and war movies. It's a bad movie for fans of science fiction.

I loved the action, atmosphere, and tension in the movie. My only problem was the aliens. They were alien in appearance only and were strategically incompetent. There was nothing foreign about the way the aliens structured their forces or behaved. It seemed like the movie producers simply took a human military force, replace it with aliens, and changed nothing in their behavior.

Strategically speaking, the aliens were retarded. Why do they need liquid water? (The line about Earth being the only place in the universe with liquid water is false). Can they not melt ice or condense vapor? Why only attack the coast lines? Why send in ground forces before establishing air support? (That's a strategic no-no). Why send in ground forces at all? Why waste so many resources on an invasion? Why didn't they wipe out humanity from orbit? Why didn't they design their drones to be autonomous in the event the command and control center was destroyed? Did they not have a contingency plan?

Of course, the aliens had to be that way in order for the protagonists to win, I get that. My only point is that this movie works great as an action flick, but not as science fiction. I find picking apart movies just as enjoyable as watching them.

I'll summarize my impression of the movie in two sentences: It's a great movie for fans of action and war movies. It's a bad movie for fans of science fiction.

I loved the action, atmosphere, and tension in the movie. My only problem was the aliens. They were alien in appearance only and were strategically incompetent. There was nothing foreign about the way the aliens structured their forces or behaved. It seemed like the movie producers simply took a human military force, replace it with aliens, and changed nothing in their behavior.

Strategically speaking, the aliens were retarded. Why do they need liquid water? (The line about Earth being the only place in the universe with liquid water is false). Can they not melt ice or condense vapor? Why only attack the coast lines? Why send in ground forces before establishing air support? (That's a strategic no-no). Why send in ground forces at all? Why waste so many resources on an invasion? Why didn't they wipe out humanity from orbit? Why didn't they design their drones to be autonomous in the event the command and control center was destroyed? Did they not have a contingency plan?

Of course, the aliens had to be that way in order for the protagonists to win, I get that. My only point is that this movie works great as an action flick, but not as science fiction. I find picking apart movies just as enjoyable as watching them.

My movie going mate tells me to STFU when I pick apart a movie we just watched.

I wished there was more of a role for the armoured units and air combat. And I wished they hadn't focused on 1 squad of people, but rather, the US marines as a whole. Good, but wasn't as good as what I had expected.

I watched this movie with some friends, me, being the science fiction lover I am, absolutely detested and tore apart this movie as I was watching it. It became a comedy to me really, because at the same time there just happened to be two physics teachers sitting behind us tearing it apart except with more intellectual input.

Notable quotes from the movie
"[as the trained doctor tries to examine an alien a civilian women strikes a remark] Maybe I can help!... I'm a veterinarian"
"This alien is like nothing i've ever seen before!" (to which I responded very loudly : No shit!)
“I need you to be strong…you’re my little Marine now.”

Also, in the beginning of the movie It took a whole squad of marines and one grenade to take out one alien, towards the end of it, everybody became crack shots at hundreds of yards away under suppressive fire and pressure from the opposing side and took each one down with #<5 hits.
Also, the aliens are here for water? because 'it isn't found in liquid form on any other planet'? Wait, so you're telling me, that these aliens, the ones with jet thrusters hot enough to melt the metal off a bus simply by grazing over it, smart enough to travel through space, can't melt Ice?

Also i'm not really sure what happened at the end of the movie because someone told me I slept through it.